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Franklin Dennis Hilf, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1972;27(5):631-635.

Abstract
Non-nonverbal communication refers to pure symbolic communication: all nonsymbolic elements (eg, nonverbal, paralinguistic, and extralinguistic) are prohibited. The elimination of nonsymbolic communication from psychiatric interviewing by reducing the number of communication variables simplifies research design. An experiment is described in which 36 judges rated patients on the paranoid dimension using transcripts of non-nonverbal psychiatric interviews as source material. (Machine-mediated interviewing, the method used to obtain the transcripts, effectively prevents all nonsymbolic communication from taking place.) Judges successfully differentiated paranoid from nonparanoid patients and were in agreement 34 out of 36 times.

Author Affiliations
Stanford, Calif

From the Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication July 19, 1972.

The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the author and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Advanced Research Projects Agency or the US Government.

Reprint requests to the Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif 94305 (Dr. Hilf).

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